FC Best of 2018: What To Look Forward To

We will count down to the new year by evaluating the best and worst films of 2018, the performances that stood out, the fresh talent that emerged from the digital space, the top songs that stayed with us, and much more

To understand how the film industry fared in 2018, we have to first look at what happened in 2017. It was around this time, last year that we rounded up leading producers to evaluate the year gone by. It was quite a sombre gathering. Apart from the stupendous success of Baahubali 2, there was bad news all around. Producer Karan Johar had said, “One has to accept and acknowledge that we are in crisis mode.”

Last week, we invited producers again to huddle up and review the year gone by. This time around it was a decidedly more cheerful conversation. “From possibly the worst year in movies we’ve had probably the best year in decades,” said Johar.

This is the year we got high concept films like Stree, Badhaai Ho and AndhaDhunthat also performed well at the box office. Shankar’s magnum opus 2.0, starring superstar Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar, achieved what no other Indian film has in terms of technology, scale and vision. Films like Veere Di Wedding, Raaziand Padmaavatchallenged the commonly held belief that women can’t open a film to good numbers. Leading actors like Saif Ali Khan and R Madhavan found success in the digital space with Sacred Games and Breathe, respectively. The on-screen love story of the year was that of Gajraj Rao and Neena Gupta’s in Badhaai Ho, and Vicky Kaushal and Taapsee Pannu emerged as the actors to watch out for in 2019.

That said, this is also the year Aamir Khan had his first flop in over a decade with Thugs of Hindostan, and we had to watch a bare-bodied Salman Khan and Bobby Deol wrestle in the desert in the ridiculous Race 3.

In addition to this, our FC South team will do a deep dive into the hits and misses of Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada cinema in 2018. Stay tuned to the ‘Best of 2018’ section on our website to track our coverage!

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